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Ecosystem functioning

2010
In the face of decreasing biodiversity and ongoing global changes, maintaining ecosystem functioning is seen both as a means to preserve biological diversity as well as for safeguarding human well-being by securing the services ecosystems provide. The concept today is prominent in many fields of ecology and conservation biology, such as biodiversity ...
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Obscuring Ecosystem Function with Application of the Ecosystem Services Concept

Conservation Biology, 2010
Abstract:  Conservationists commonly have framed ecological concerns in economic terms to garner political support for conservation and to increase public interest in preserving global biodiversity. Beginning in the early 1980s, conservation biologists adapted neoliberal economics to reframe ecosystem functions ...
Markus J, Peterson, Damon M, Hall, Andrea M, Feldpausch-Parker, Tarla Rai, Peterson   +3 more
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Defining Soil Quality For Ecosystems and Ecosystem Functioning

1993
A number of approaches to defining soil quality have attempted to derive a single set of values based on uncontaminated or ‘undamaged’ soils (e.g. Lexmond et al 1986, Moen et al 1986). An ecological approach should be based on the soil requirements of the given soil biota system and the use/management aims of the system.
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Biodiversity and Microbial Ecosystems Functioning

2014
All ecosystems are composed of multiple species performing numerous functions. This plurality identified as biodiversity has become a research topic of general importance for understanding how ecosystems function. The word “biodiversity” has subsequently received different interpretations we aim to describe.
Normand, Philippe, Duran, Robert, Le Roux, Xavier, Morris, Cindy E., Poggiale, Jean-Christophe   +4 more
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Ecosystem Function of Biodiversity: A Summary

1994
In light of past and projected global changes in land use and climate, there has been increasing concern about the loss of genetic diversity in fragmented populations, the loss of species diversity through habitat destruction, and the role of landscape diversity in regional processes.
Schulze, E., Mooney, H.
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Species diversity, functional diversity, and ecosystem functioning

2002
Abstract Experiments assessing the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning initially aimed at establishing whether such relationships exist (e.g. Naeem et al. 1995; Tilman et al. 1996; Jonsson and Malmqvist 2000; Engelhardt and Ritchie 2001).
Hooper, D., Buchmann, N., Degrange, V., Díaz, S., Gessner, M., Grime, P., Hulot, F., Mermillod-Blondin, F., Van Peer, L., Roy, J., Symstad, A., Solan, M., Spehn, E.   +12 more
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Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning

2012
The majority of research on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning in laboratories has concentrated on a few traits, but there is increasing evidence from the field that functional diversity controls ecosystem functioning more often than does species number. Given the importance of traits as predictors of niche complementarity and community structures, we (
Mulder, Christian, Boit, Alice, Mori, Shigeta, Vonk, J. Arie, Dyer, Scott D., Faggiano, Leslie, Geisen, Stefan, González, Angélica L., Kaspari, Michael, Lavorel, Sandra, Marquet, Pablo A., Rossberg, Axel G., Sterner, Robert W., Voigt, Winfried, Wall, Diana H.   +14 more
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Ecosystem services ecosystem function and the ecosystem approach

2014
This project focused on mapping the delivery of three ecosystems services each in one case study area in Scotland and then identify how the Scottish policies such as woodland expansion biodiversity, conservation and food production affect the land use.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

Conservation Biology, 1994
In at least some circumstances, biodiversity affects various ecosystem functions and the ways in which ecosystems respond to disturbance. Because these interactions occur at many spatial and temporal scales and throughout all levels of biological organization, it is difficult to decide where to focus attention on interactions between biodiversity and ...
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Assessment of the purifying function of ecosystems

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2000
Vorenhout, M., van Straalen, N.M., Eijsackers, H.J.P.   +2 more
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